Eivind Buene

The main bulk of Buene’s list of works consists of compositions for soloists, ensembles and orchestras, but the composer has also focused on work with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improv.

For the time frame 2015 to 2019, Buene has been appointed as assistant professor in composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

2012 saw Buene being bestowed with a Spellemannsprisen Award, the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy, for the album Possible Cities/Essentials Landscapes recorded by the Cikada Ensemble. In 2015, Buene received the Edvard Prize for his work Blue Mountain.

In addition to music, Buene has written music critique and essays, and he made his literary debut with the novel Enmannsorkester in 2010. His second novel Allsang was released in October 2012, and a collection of essays was published in March 2014. His third novel, Oppstandelse, was released in September 2016.

Buene's works have seen performances at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie and Centre Pompidou. His debut as a stage composer came in August 2006 with the one act chamber opera September, based on Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.

From 2000 onwards, Buene has been active as a freelance composer, based in Oslo, writing for a number of ensembles and orchestras at home and abroad. His roster of received commissions includes works written for Ensemble Intercontemporain, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Fondation Royaumont and a variety of Scandinavian orchestras and ensembles.

1992 to 1998 saw Buene studying pedagogics and composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. In 1999 and 2000 he was contemporary music ensemble Oslo Sinfonietta’s composer in residence.

Eivind Buene (born 7 September 1973 in Oslo) is a Norwegian contemporary composer.